The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE Historic Photos of the Chicago World's Fair by Russell Lewis Chicago's World's Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago World's Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular world's fair ever built. The Columbian Exposition opened on May 1, 1893, and more than 21,000,000 people visited the fair during the six months it was open to the public. The White City was a seminal event in America's history that changed the way the world viewed Chicago. Fortunately, the fair was documented in stunning photographs by commercial and amateur photographers. This volume tells the story of the fair from its construction in Jackson Park to its destruction by fire after the fair had closed. Photographs of the exhibition halls,...
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE The 1933 Chicago World's Fair: A Century of Progress by Cheryl R. Ganz From fan dancers to fan belts--the compelling, untold stories of Chicago's 1933 world fair--abundantly illustrated with colour and black-and-white photographs FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers, almost all former military men, the fair reflected a business- military- engineering model that envisioned a promising future through...
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE Chicago's 1933-34 World's Fair:: A Century of Progress in Vintage Postcards by Samantha Gleisten You will enter A Century of Progress for the first time perhaps like an explorer-curious and eager- penetrating an amazingly rumored domain in search of treasure. -Official Guide Book to the Fair, 1933 One century after Chicago's incorporation, the city hosted the 1933 World's Fair, which was so successful it was held over for 1934. Aptly named A Century of Progress, the fair confirmed Chicago's emergence as a major American city. Like the phoenix from the ashes, Chicago emerged from its devastating fire of 1871 as one of the most architecturally significant and aesthetically inviting cities in the world. On 424 lakeside acres located on...
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Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM Photographic History of the World's Fair and Sketch of the City of Chicago: Also a Guide to the World's Fair and Chicago (Classic Reprint) by James Wilson Pierce. or Rating: Format: Paperback / softback, 520 pages Other Information: , black & white illustrations Published In: United States, 16 June 2016 Excerpt from Photographic History of the World's Fair and Sketch of the City of Chicago: Also a Guide to the World's Fair and Chicago In this volume will be found not only a minute account of the great exposition, but also a historical sketch of Chicago, and a description of that city as it is today in its greatness. Many books have been written upon these subjects, but in this one volume are collected all the most...
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Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM World's Fair, Jamaica at Chicago: An Account Descriptive of the Colony of Jamaica, with Historical and Other Appendices (Classic Reprint) by Jamaica Jamaica. or Rating: Format: Paperback, 68 pages Published In: United States, 12 November 2016 Excerpt from World's Fair, Jamaica at Chicago: An Account Descriptive of the Colony of Jamaica, With Historical and Other Appendices The City of Kingston has had an exciting and eventful history. Many of the survivors of the 1692 earthquake at Port Royal settled on the sea - board -of the Liguanea plain, and Kingston is the gradual out-growth of that settlement. Its progress, though slow at first, was accelerated in 1703 by a fire which completely destroyed the revived Port...
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The Chicago Bell Pendant Light is finished in antique silver. The Chicago design is a contemporary appropriation of the light fittings that would appear in factories and kitchen's alike throughout the 20th Century, the Chicago Bell Pendant Light evokes memories of form and function along with a retro charm. Fun Stuff Shade height: 42cm Shade diameter: 46cm Chain Length: 1m Globe: E27 60W

Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM World's Fair: Jamaica at Chicago. an Account Descriptive of the Colony of Jamaica, with Historical and Other Appendices by Charles James Ward. or Rating: Format: Hardback, 100 pages Other Information: black & white illustrations Published In: United States, 13 August 2015 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work...
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Al Capone and the 1933 World's Fair: The End of the Gangster Era in Chicago is a historical look at Chicago during the darkest days of the Great Depression. The story of Chicago fighting the hold that organized crime had on the city to be able to put on The 1933 World's Fair. William Hazelgrove provides the exciting and sprawling history behind the 1933 World's Fair, the last of the golden age. He reveals the story of the six millionaire businessmen, dubbed The Secret Six, who beat Al Capone at his own game, ending the gangster era as prohibition was repealed. The story of an intriguing woman, Sally Rand, who embodied the World's Fair with her own rags to riches story and brought sex into the open. The story of Rufus and Charles Dawes who gave the fair a theme and then found financing in...
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE America at the Fair: Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition by Chaim M. Rosenberg At the time of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, the United States was fast becoming the world's leading economy. Chicago, the host city, had grown in less than half a century from a village to the country's second-largest metropolis. During this, the Gilded Age, the world's most extensive railroad and steamship networks poured ceaselessly through Chicago, carrying the raw goods and finished products of America's great age of invention and industrial expansion. The Fair was the largest ever at the time, with 65,000 exhibitors and millions of visitors. It has been called the Blueprint of the American Future and marked the beginning of the national...
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE Spectacle in the White City: The Chicago 1893 World's Fair by Stanley Comp Appelbaum A splendid tribute to The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in a sweeping landscape format. Includes essays and captions by a noted historian. 128 photographs. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893, combined nostalgia for the United States' European roots with a celebration of the nation's emergence as a world power. A splendid tribute to the exposition's White City of shining Beaux-Arts buildings, this hardcover volume offers a grand photographic record, printed in duotone in...
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Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM Hill's Souvenir Guide to Chicago and the World's Fair by Thomas E. 1832-1915 Hill. or Rating: Format: Hardcover, 242 pages Published In: United States, 01 September 2015 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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Free Delivery Worldwide : Hill's Souvenir Guide to Chicago and the World's Fair (1892) : Paperback : Kessinger Publishing : 9780548812648 : 0548812640 : 10 Jan 2008 : This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM Ode for the Opening of the World's Fair Held at Chicago, 1892 by George Whitefield Chadwick. or Rating: Format: Hardback, 60 pages Other Information: black & white illustrations Published In: United States, 22 August 2015 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of...
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Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the wonder of the age-a.k.a. the Chicago World's Fair. Aunt Euterpe is inviting the Becketts to come for a visit and go to the fair Award-winning author Richard Peck's fresh, realistic, and fun-filled writing truly brings the World's Fair-and Rosie and her family-to life.

Free Delivery Worldwide : History of the Northwestern Soldiers' Fair, Held in Chicago, 1864 : Hardback : Kessinger Publishing : 9780548272572 : 0548272573 : 25 Jul 2007 : This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Sometimes it takes an outsider to capture the essence of an individual place. The impressions of travelers in particular have a special allure— unanticipated and serendipitous, their views get to the heart of a particular region because nothing to them is routine or expected.First published in 1933 by the University of Chicago Press to mark the occasion of the Century of Progress Exhibition, As Others See Chicago consists of writings culled from over a thousand men and women who visited the city and commented on the best and worst it had to offer, from the skyscrapers to the stockyards. Originally compiled by Bessie Louise Pierce, the first major historian of Chicago, and featuring her own incisive commentary, the volume brings together the impressions of visitors to Chicago over two and...
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Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us Books Toys Health & Beauty Home & Garden Kitchen, Dining, Bar Movies Baby Sports Music Video Games & Consoles Business World's Fair Souvenir of the Engineers' Club of Saint Louis, 1904 (Classic Reprint) by Engineers' Club of St Louis. Rating: Format: Paperback, 184 pages Published In: United States, 27 September 2015 Excerpt from World's Fair Souvenir of the Engineers' Club of Saint Louis, 1904 At the time of the World's Fair in Chicago, 1893, the Engineers' Club of St. Louis prepared a pamphlet entitled Engineering Works of St. Louis and Its Vicinity, of Interest to Visiting Civil, Mining, Mechanical and Electrical Engineers. This was intended to be of use to visiting engineers who might come to St. Louis during the...
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Home New Arrivals Add to Favourites Shipping FAQ About / Contact Us ZOOM Official Guide Book of the World's Fair of 1934, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) by Century Of Progress Internat Exposition. or Rating: Format: Paperback, 210 pages Published In: United States, 27 September 2015 Excerpt from Official Guide Book of the World's Fair of 1934, Vol. 1 This is the official guide book to A Century of Progress International Exposition in 1934, the World's Fair at Chicago. It contains the fullest and most accurate information possible for the purpose of directing our visitors how to find everything in the Exposition and how to make use of the Exposition's facilities for their comfort and convenience. In preparing this official guide book we have had in mind, first: the making of a guide that would...
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Product details: Wordery All the World's a Fair Visions of Empire at American International Exhibitions, 1876-1916 by Robert W. Rydell 9780226732404 (Paperback, 1987) DeliveryAustralia n shipping is usually within 10 to 13 working days. Product details Format: Paperback Language of text: English Isbn-13: 9780226732404, 978-0226732404 Author: Robert W. Rydell Publisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Publication date: 1987-10-01 Pages: 338 Product dimensions: 165mm (w) x 228mm (h) x 22.05mm (d) Overview Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the ethnological displays of nonwhitesset up by showmen but endorsed...
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The Nile on eBay FREE SHIPPING AUSTRALIA WIDE Celebrating the New World: Chicago's Columbian Exposition of 1893 by Robert Muccigrosso It was the most astonishing fair ever. The grandest exposition this planet has ever witnessed, wrote one observer of the Columbian Exposition. A spectacular neoclassical White City designed by the nation's leading architects under the direction of Daniel Burnham; innumerable exhibits of science, technology, and the arts from throughout the world; a meeting place for a remarkable variety of social, intellectual, and religious groups; and a Midway of sometimes up-lifting, sometimes exotic attractions - all staged in that boisterous and fascinating city of wealth, culture, and corruption, Chicago. No fair since has so captured the imagination of the American...
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When championing the commercial buildings and homes that made the Windy City famous, one can’t help but mention the brilliant names of their architects— Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, and Frank Lloyd Wright, among others. But few people are aware of Henry Ives Cobb (1859–1931), the man responsible for an extraordinarily rich chapter in the city’s turn-of-the-centur y building boom, and fewer still realize Cobb’s lasting importance as a designer of the private and public institutions that continue to enrich Chicago’s exceptional architectural heritage. Henry Ives Cobb’s Chicago is the first book about this distinguished architect and the magnificent buildings he created, including the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Fisheries...
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